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Man quarantined

ATLANTA: Hundreds of health authorities around the world are scrambling to track down people who may have had contact with a man who has a form of tuberculosis considered so dangerous that he has been placed under the first U.S. Government-ordered quarantine since 1963, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said on Wednesday.``There are two aspects to this,'' CDC director Julie Gerberding said. ``One is, is the patient himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably not. But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria." — AP

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